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Cognition – ‘The process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience or the senses’

Resonance: ‘Amplifying effect when two systems interact in harmony’

Evolution of Consciousness is toward Cognitive Resonance

The concept of the Brain as a Hologram posits that memory is distributed rather than localized in the brain. If it was possible for every portion of a piece of a holographic film to contain all the information necessary to create a whole image, then it seemed equally possible for every part of the brain to contain all the information necessary to recall a whole memory. But responses evoked by the individual in a particular scenario is highly conditioned since the neural networks work in a certain predictive pattern and the whole information content of the brain is not used. But scenarios are soon changing. A simple case of E-Assessment or E-Testing gives evidence that e-marketers are now able to think out-of-the-box to challenge the networking in the brain and force it to reconfigure the pattern. The so called ‘Disruptive Technologies’ which are AI driven are putting new barriers, forcing the brain to re-think and enable a seamless evolution of consciousness. Very soon traditional Multiple-Choice questions in E-Assessment which has one correct answer and others as detractors, will be replace by gaming scenarios or other multi-modal question-feedback that allows new synthesis and critical thinking to emerge – the new education perspective can be used to develop the ‘Multiple-Intelligence’ of the child from the very onset. It also augurs well in the velocity or emerging markets in the world where use of high-speed internet data (4G/5G or similar) is affordable in the use of devices like tabs and smart phones.

Going Beyond-Multiple Choice in the E-Assessment environment and the use of AI driven technologies in Skills Assessment also shows Change and Evolution in the Framework and Policies which are integrating the Transformation of Consciousness taking place.

Modern neuroscience research tells us that every brain is unique and
experience driven. So, at birth certain neural pathways and networks
are conditioned by our genes. That remains fixed or conditioned but
the brain is not static but dynamic and continually morphs itself in
response to experience. So, the new take is genetics + environment
drives human behaviour and understanding and skills set. There is
evolution of consciousness based on quality of external stimulants.

To challenge the brain and our understanding of a particular subject
we can devise new ways of testing or creating new scenarios which will
be completely new to the already conditioned neural pathways in the
brain caused by one set of testing or assessment. The brain has to
radically change its own response to the new assessment and evolve
accordingly. It has to form new synapses with regard to new
information processing and use data already stored in its own hologram
to find the right answers.
New ways of testing and assessment drives new evolution and it can
change brain function and brain size as well. This is the new dynamics
of collective evolution based on Beyond Multiple-Choice Assessment. For technical expertise assessment, there is already a shift towards virtual simulation, where the participant can respond to practical testing sitting anywhere, anytime.

If the new technology can mix unpredictability or uncertainty in the
scenarios for assessment, allowing randomness to constitute a new
complex order then the brain can respond to that situation using its
own non-local consciousness.

There will be quantum entanglement b/w the information bits (quantum
information bits or qubits) in the question and the information stored
as memory in the brain hologram. If Assessment is an understanding of the participant’s formal knowledge about a subject, then in an ideal scenario there is cognitive resonance between the Questions, Delivery of it and the Answers or Responses which comprise the Assessment Process. The more enriched this process is, the better is the evolution of consciousness.

Assessment Tomorrow and the eAA today announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to take forward the e-Assessment Question Conference and Exhibition (www.e-assessment-question.com).

The 2019 e-Assessment Question conference (10th and 11th April 2019), now in its 17th year, has become one of the key events on the education calendar for the UK and beyond. It brings together public and private sector institutions, awarding organisations, technology companies, policymakers and other educationalists that share an interest in improving assessment.

Matt Wingfield, chairman of the eAA, comments:

“The eAssessment Question has become one of the most influential gatherings in education technology. The spring conference has steadily grown to become one of the main annual events in the edtech calendar, and has seen major deals and policy decisions originated from within its doors.”

Jeff Ross, director at Assessment Tomorrow, comments:

“We are confident that the eAA is well placed to drive the conference forward, evolving the format in partnership with its members and industry sponsors to ensure it remains relevant to the needs of this rapidly maturing sector.”

The eAA already organises the eAssessment Awards to promote best practice within the sector as part of the conference programme and the 3rd annual awards dinner will be held on the evening of 10th April.

From 2020, the eAA will take over the organisation of the conference and exhibition with support from Assessment Tomorrow.

Assessment Tomorrow has been organising specialist e-assessment conferences and events in a number of worldwide locations since its first London event in 2003.

The eAssessment Association is a professional membership organisation with over 1,600 members drawn from right across the formal education and work-based learning sectors.

Founded in 2008, the association promotes better assessment of knowledge, skills and capabilities of people through technology. It builds awareness of the benefits that technology brings to assessment and works to ensure that the industry it has a strong voice and influence in key policy debates.

Sometimes I do wonder what makes a photograph so fascinating. Is it the observed or the capture, or, the technology used to observe the observed, or, something hidden beneath the observed that it brings out, some recurrent pattern or archetype that gives the photograph something to stand out from the clutter of objects in our every day life. Does the photograph throw any light on the mind of the photographer? Does it tell anything about his level of perception, as he is the one who is choosing the subject of his photography? Adding another perspective to it, does the photograph hold a key or passport to eternity? Lets look into it. If the photograph captures a moment or say a decisive moment, then we are talking about a precise fragment of space-time which is discreet or can be called a quanta. Instead of thinking about the linearity of time because our neural networking is conditioned that way, we can think about discontinuous moments and there are infinitesimal gaps in between these moments. At the subquantum level, these are interference patterns of wave fronts which are captured in the photograph. Through the photograph is a presence because our brains are Fourier analyzing the wave forms, they are in fact frequencies which have their origin not at the manifested level of reality but at the implicate level which is the quantum potential. Out of that quantum potential, the photographer is able to manifest one aspect of it in a kind of coordinated movement (also called Holomovement by David Bohm). What does it then tell about the photograph? Though the photograph is a local thing-event, but, what is fundamental is the deeper reality behind it, not, time but the timeless that it represents. That is possible because the photographer is a witness or observer- he is not adding anything to reality. He just capturing “things as they are”. And these discreet ”thing-events” (ji) are like mirrors reflecting each other ad infinitum creating an orchestrated dance like billions of jewels in a necklace each reflecting each other and thereby creating an entire ensemble through mutual interpenetration. Each jewel or dew drop reflects the whole (though of lower resolution) and is a passport to the timeless and the eternal.

The Face Is The Mirror Of The Soul – Serge Anton

I would like all of you to have a look at Serge’s work, these faces capture the timeless frozen in time. The observer’s consciousness have archived those beautiful moments that capture the essence of existence and bliss. This is what reality is all about – at both levels, the manifested biological level of physical forms, and, at a deeper fundamental level of subquantum reality, the level of the formless or the unmanifest which is more fundamental. It is the TAO or the Brahman Or the Void which manifests our individuality out of love and compassion (karuna), and if you use the great wisdom or ”maha-prajna” then everything goes back into the timeless as possibilities in consciousness, into the formless undifferentiated, unborn Self which you verily are -”Tat Tvam Asi” (That Thou Art). Here, the photographer is the SEER, the witness, all-pervasive, perfect, non-dual, free, intelligent, action-less, desire-less, unattached and serene – that is the true nature of the Self. The moment photographed is the beautiful tapestry of wordless silence, each face having its own narrative which reflects all other narratives – faces reflecting each other and resembling the whole, the ensemble in a synergistic dance that comes from “the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe
ready to accommodate any act and any audience”. (Buckminster Fuller on Vector Equilibrium)

So, you can take a look at Serge Anton’s work from his book Faces by Lannoo Publishers and enjoy every discreet moment.

FACES from Lannoo Publishers is an exquisitely designed book of beautiful portraits taken by internationally renowned photographer, Serge Anton. Each portrait has been photographed on Anton’s countless travels in Africa and Asia over the last 30 years.

Each portrait tells wordless stories, as they reveal a certain resemblance in the exotic faces of faraway cultures- details in their eyes and wrinkles that seem to reflect the wisdom of lifetimes. There is no text to explain each portrait as Anton wants readers to be intrigued by the portrait no matter where, how or when it was taken.

(Song that came to Indira Maa after 14 hours of meditation at Mussorie, 1949. Dadaji, i.e. Sri Dilip Kumar Roy translated it into English. The original song was in simple Hindi. – from a spiritual science point of view some sort of super-luminal synapse taking place in the brain by mediation of Non-Local Consciousness, thereby articulating in simple harmony the essence of the Lord as expressed in Srimad Bhagavatam)- The Advent of Mira, Pilgrims of the Stars, Autobiography of Two Yogis, Dilip Kumar Roy and Indira Devi

Sri Aurobindo: “Obviously. Be it a new realization or light or idea- it must first descend into one person from whom it radiates out in widening circles to others. Doesn’t the Gita, too, say that the ways of the best of men act as models to the rest? In the Integral Yoga, however, the work starts after the realization, whereas in most other yogas it ends with the realization. The reason is that I am primarily at manifestation, for which I must, obviously, reach the Supramental myself before I can bring it to bear on our earth-consciousness. For this, ascent has to be the first step- descent is the next.”

Sri Dilip Kumar Roy: “How will the descent work, to start with?”

Sri Aurobindo: “When the Supramental touches our being, our consciousness will overpass its twilit stage of the mental, where the Divine Truth is distorted, into the upper regions where light has free play, that is, where there are no such distortions. This will in its turn bring about the transformation of mind, life and body, as that will be one of the functions of the Force as its inception in the world of matter, generally- to usher in subsequently the new era in man’s living. You must not misunderstand me. What I want to achieve is the bringing down of the Supramemtal to bear on this being of ours so as to raise it to a level higher than the mental and from there change and sublimate the workings of mind, life and body….”